The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Mutationem motus proportionalem esse vi motrici impressæ, & fieri secundum lineam rectam qua vis illa imprimitur.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Newton's laws of motion Laws of physics

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Isaac Newton

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Principia

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Scientific literature

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Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

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Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 2.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 2.

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Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.

Isaac Newton

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Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 1.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 1.

Another quote from the 1680s

Great wits are sure to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel

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John Dryden
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Absalom and Achitophel
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Poem
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Time
1681 1680s 17th century
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Dryden, John. Absalom and Achitophel. London: Jacob Tonson, 1681, pt. 1, I. 163.

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Dryden, John. "Absalom and Achitophel." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 1, I. 163.

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God and all the attributes of God are eternal.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics

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Baruch Spinoza
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Ethics
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1677 1670s 17th century
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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 1, prop. 19.

Current Citation

Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 1, prop. 19.